Tolland Co., CT, 1713 Petition Extracted from The Early History of Tolland An Address Delivered Before the Tolland County Historical Society At Tolland, Conn., On the 22d day of August & 27 day of September, 1861 By Loren P. WALDO p. 8-9

"To the Honorable the General Assembly in Hartford, May 14, 1713.

The petition of us the subscribers humbly showeth: That whereas your petitioners being inhabitants of this colony, and the descendants of those that have for a long time contribured to the support of the same, being through the numerous increase of our families much straitened for want of land whereon to make improvement and get our livelihood: and being encouraged by your honors' wonted goodness to encourage the settling of plantation i the waste lands within the colony, and having viewed a township of land on the east side of the great river, ordered by the town of Windsor and the heirs of Mr. Thomas BURNHAM, deceased, to be settled into a plantation bounded as in their agreement doth fully appear; -- many of us having already been out with the committee and taken up lots in the same, and shall with those that are desirous to settle with us, speedily settle a fair town there if the government discourage us not; we therefore humbly pray your honors would garnat that a township may be made of said land, and that they may be patented to and holden by such inhabitants as shall be admitted by the comittee appointed by the town of Windsor, and heirs of Mr. Thomas BURNHAM, deceased, and your petitioners shall ever pray." Dated, May 9, 1713